I have to vent a little bit...I really am a blown away that a 30k car with 17k miles on it just continuously has so many rattles. My 97 Altima didn't rattle like this at 120k! My dealership keeps addressing them and in most cases fixing them but it just seems ridiculous.....doors, seats, dash, sunroof, pillars...ugh

On another note, why is it that I really can't spin the tires. I am dropping the clutch around 3-4 with TCS off and it bounces and bangs as the tires catch and loose grip quickly. What's the deal??

 

Suspension is underdamped!

 

What does that mean suspension is underdamped?

 

IMO, here's a great explaination:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping

 

This car is a rattle machine...you fix one, and another pops up sooner or later...It's one of the cons of this car for sure. I still love mine though

 

Maybe I'm just lucky but my '04 doesn't have one rattle. I have yet to come across a single manufacturing defect.

Nice Sinfest clip by the way. It's one of my favorite strips.

 

So is this normal for this car? Every stick I have driven in the past never did this.

 

 

I've had a rattle here and there... mostly when the weather changes, but nothing that would change how much I love my car. I unintentionally added a rattle when I took apart the drivers' door panel to install the remote window down module, but it went away a couple months later.

I have an '05, the the '04s are notorious for rattles and issues being that it's a 1st year model (luckily for Lukeatron, doesn't apply to him).

As for the wheel hop, that mostly went away after I lowered the car. Still happens sometimes on the stock tires, but my wide summer wheels and sticky summer tires take care of all that.